Wordpress is a brilliant example of Inner Platform Effect[1] in all its hideous misbegotten architecture-iness, and symbolic of (and literally) everything wrong with the web we now have today.
A newer example of that same effect is Dropbox, which allows users to read and write files to web-based storage and share with others. Great for Dropbox Inc; piss all use to an open web.
First Rule of Open Web: Shoot all the Middlemen. Because they are the first indicator that you’ve done it wrong.
And if you still can’t see the red flag these “middlewares” represent then shoot yourself too, because you’re part of very the same problem. Nerds love complexity, and they love devising complex solutions to problems they’ve created themselves.
That you so completely missed the point without even trying sadly demonstrates that we have a very very long way to go.
A newer example of that same effect is Dropbox, which allows users to read and write files to web-based storage and share with others. Great for Dropbox Inc; piss all use to an open web.
First Rule of Open Web: Shoot all the Middlemen. Because they are the first indicator that you’ve done it wrong.
And if you still can’t see the red flag these “middlewares” represent then shoot yourself too, because you’re part of very the same problem. Nerds love complexity, and they love devising complex solutions to problems they’ve created themselves.
That you so completely missed the point without even trying sadly demonstrates that we have a very very long way to go.
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[1] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Inner-Platform_Effect